Genesis defines its own words. The same two Hebrew words for “image” and “likeness” that describe man made by God describe Seth, born “in his own likeness, after his image” to Adam. Here’s what tselem and demut mean across the Bible, what scholars like Benjamin Sommer say, and how the Restoration read it first.
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“God is a Spirit” is the go-to proof that the Father has no body. Read John 4 in context, check the Greek, and set it beside Luke 24:39, the seventy elders who “saw the God of Israel,” Daniel’s two figures, Stephen’s vision, and Origen’s own admission that “incorporeal” isn’t a Bible word.
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BYU’s John Hilton III and his colleagues tagged the speaker of every verse in the Book of Mormon. They found 149 voices, more than 1,700 speaker changes, and verbal fingerprints that hold up: Nephi’s “my soul delighteth,” Jacob’s “God,” and the Savior’s “baptize.” Part 1 of 10.
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Critics have named 226 Book of Mormon “anachronisms” since 1830. In 1844, 93 of 102 were unconfirmed. Today, 21 of 226 are. Matthew Roper’s 2025 study in Interpreter, category by category: Alma, Sam, barley, cement, steel, metal plates, Nahom, Bountiful, and the 21 still open.
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Sixty working days and one draft. Hebrew grammar the KJV doesn’t have. Alma 36’s chiasmus, Nahom and Bountiful in Arabia, the Berkeley wordprint study, and eleven witnesses who never recanted. The strongest Book of Mormon evidence, with sources and honest caveats.
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